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...special Eldorado achieves the ultimate in conspicuous consumption of space by putting buckets in the back, thereby sacrificing an extra passenger for the bucket's thronelike comfort. Racing-style stick shifts sprout from car floors, even when they are really only disguised automatic transmission levers. Tachometers stare from dashboards to dazzle the Sunday driver with precious information as to how many revolutions per minute his motor is delivering. And where car nomenclature once connoted carriage-trade-victoria, brougham, landau-the new names and models now smack of high compression-Monza, Le Mans, J-TR, Spyder, Grand Prix...
...Visas. The Reds got their first inkling of trouble from Foreign Minister Lima. Fixing the delegation with an icy stare, Lima informed it that "the congress is inopportune" and that there would be no official courtesies forthcoming. Then Moscow reported that Russia's entire delegation-Authoress Vasilevskaya included -had been refused visas without explanation by the Brazilian embassy...
Fredrick J. Stare, professor of Nutrition at the Medical School and Secretary of the Massachusetts Committee for Dental Health, stated Wednesday that the opponents of fluoridation in Brookline have waged a campaign of "vituperation and distortion." His statement was reiterated and augmented yesterday by Mrs. Justyn Wyner of the Brookline committee supporting fluoridation...
...life. At times they sprawl all over his room, tormenting him so much he spills his soup and screams in agony. In the afternoon, when he is feeling almost amiable, he tosses some bread crumbs to a sickly pigeon. He runs out of crumbs, but the pigeon continues to stare at him with a baleful red eye. ''If I look at it long enough it will go away,'' the old man thinks. The pigeon pecks at his shoe. "Go away," the old man cries, kicking the pigeon in the throat; and it promptly keels over. That...
...squeaks, and the children turn to stare at a tiny boy (John Megna) with huge buck teeth...